In addition to a written or printed card, each specimen bears a smaller label, with its number printed upon it. The colour of this smaller label indicates the provinces from which the specimen comes, as follows: The meteorite, of which this is a model, is now in the Museum of the Geological and Natural History Survey at Ottawa. It was found in 1854, and before cutting weighed 370 pounds. It contains 6.35 per cent. of nickel, and in making a section of it, rounded masses of magnetic sulphide of iron (probably troilite) were found. When etched with an acid it exhibits in a beautiful manner the so-called Widmannstättian figures. As might be anticipated from the great area and the diversity of the geological formations of the Dominion of Canada, the country is preeminently rich in ores of iron, and in many districts the deposits are of great extent and excellent quality. Some of these districts labour under the disadvantage of a want of accessible fuel, but in the case of others, where coal or wood may be obtained in immediate proximity to the iron ores, it would appear to be possible to establish iron works on a large scale. There are several furnaces in the province of Quebec, producing charcoal pig; but at the present moment there is only one blast-furnace making coke pig-iron, and one rolling-mill in connection with puddling furnaces, in operation in the Dominion, while the total value of iron and steel imported in various forms in 1884 was $14,790,727, and the grand total of imported iron and steel for the seventeen years since confederation (1868) reaches the sum of $230,741,434, equal to an annual average of thirteen and a half million dollars. (See "The Manufacture, Consumption and Production of Iron, Steel and Coal in the Dominion of Canada. J. H. Bartlett. Montreal: Dawson Bros.") These figures serve to give some idea of the market which is now available in the Dominion, and which might be supplied by iron manufactured there. Magnetic Iron Ore. Texada Island, B. C. 39. Magnetic iron ore from mine three miles from Gillies Bay. Geological Survey B 277. Magnetic iron ore from north-east side of Texada Island. Geological Survey. 103. Pig-iron manufactured from Texada ore, with one-third of bog ore from Puget Sound.-W. F. Bullen, Victoria, B.C. These important deposits occur in crystalline rocks supposed to be of Carboniferous age. The largest exposure is on the south side of Texada Island, about three miles north-west of Gillies Bay. Here the ore mass is seen to be from twenty to twenty-five feet thick, in contact with grey crystalline limestone, with which, for about two feet down, are intercalated bands of ore, of from half an inch to one inch in thickness. From this point to the north-west, for nearly a mile, the ore is occasionally seen, and at one place there is a continuous exposure about 250 feet long and from one to ten feet thick. As regards mining and shipment, the ore is most favourably situated; while in the event of smelting operations being carried on, there is an abundance of wood suitable for making charcoal on the island; and Comox Harbour, from which the coal of the Comox area will be shipped, is less than twenty miles distant. The ore is of an iron-grey colour, and frequently contains little cavities, which hold red or yellow ochre, and are sometimes lined with octahedral crystals of magnetite. A partial analysis of a specimen collected by the late Mr. James Richardson of the Geological Survey, gave 68.40 per cent. of iron, and only 003 per cent. of phosphorus. Considerable quantities of this ore have lately been shipped to Washington Territory for smelting in conjunction with bog iron ore.-Carboniferous (?) An Island in Queen Charlotte Sound, B. C. 35. Magnetic iron ore. Geological Survey. This deposit occurs on a small island of the Walker group, and though excep tionally rich-the specimens examined yielding as high as 71:57 per cent. of iron-has not attracted much attention, owing to the want of a convenient harbour.-Palæozoic, An Island in Queen Charlotte Sound, B. C. Hon. J. C. Helmcken, M.D., Victoria, B. C. 528. Magnetic iron ore. This and the preceding specimen are from the same locality.-Palæozoic. Sooke, Vancouver Island, B. C... .. F. G. Richards, Jr., Victoria, B. ('. These ores are from Sections 79 and 83, Sooke district, at a distance of about twenty miles from Victoria, near the coast, and with excellent facilities for shipment. The deposit is rather of the nature of a stock work than a true vein, but can be traced for some distance in a N.E.-S.W. direction, and in places shows from ten to twenty feet of nearly pure ore. The country rock is a |